This appeared a few days ago:
Online health portals prove popular in New Zealand
November 21, 2016 2PM Shannon Williams
Nearly a quarter of a million New Zealanders are now using a patient portal to access their health information, the Government has revealed.
In 2015, a $3 million funding boost gave more New Zealanders access to patient portals, included $500,000 for an awareness campaign.
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says it great to see a significant increase in portal users.
�Patient portals enable patients to manage aspects of their own healthcare such as booking appointments, requesting repeat prescriptions and messaging clinical staff directly,� says Coleman.
�It�s great to see the number of patient portal users significantly increase from around 175,000 in June 2016 to over 241,300 in September 2016 � a 38% increase in just over three months,� he says.
Coleman says the number of practices offering a portal service has also increased over this period, from 335 to 423 - a rise of 27%.
Compared with September 2015, the number of portal users increased by around 160%, and practices offering portals increased by 56%.
�Patients can now access their personal health information whenever they need it,� says Coleman.
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Well what a surprise!
Provide patients will a portal that is useful to get repeats, make appointments, check results and communicate with clinicians and they use it. Who would have guessed. Provide a myHR with none of this after 5 years of development and it gets ignored � amazing�.
Maybe the myHR system should be re-designed to deliver what patients want. Is this not what the consultation should be showing?
If these points are not addressed it will be clear to all we are having a Clayton�s consultation process!
David.
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